Prospects for Life on Temperate Planets around Brown Dwarfs
Authors: Manasvi Lingam, Idan Ginsburg, and Abraham Loeb
2020 The Astrophysical Journal888102.
Provider: AAS Journals
Caption: Figure 2.
The black curve shows the range of orbital radii (in au) compatible with a ∼1 Gyr habitability lifetime. It is plotted as a function of the brown dwarf mass (in MJ). The red curve depicts the Roche limit as a function of the brown dwarf mass.